Professional Experience
Luciana Nobrega joined the Firm in 2010, worked for two years as a tax advisor in Luxembourg and one year as a member of the international reorganizations group at Ablfs McKfnzif in London.
She works in the tax planning and consulting areas of the Tax group, focusing on international operations. She has vast experience in supporting Brazilian companies expanding or reorganizing abroad, including planning and tax support for corporate reorganizations, transfer pricing issues and alignment with foreign tax authorities (obtaining APAs and rulings), structuring and implementing investment funds in Brazil and abroad, and domestic and international financial transactions. Luciana also has experience in coordinating corporate implementation of multi-jurisdictional projects.
Awards and Recognitions
Recognized as one of the most admired lawyers in Brazil by the yearbook Análise Advocacia 500 (2021) and mentioned by The Legal 500 in the categories Tax Consulting, Customs and Tax Litigation (2022).
Academic Background
Luciana holds an LLM in International Taxation from Leiden University, Netherlands (awarded with a full scholarship from Nuffic HSP Huygens).
Publications
Author/co-author of several books/articles, such as:
– Multinationals and Transparency in the EU, Valor Econômico, 2016;
– Private Client: A Q&A guide to private client law in Brazil, Practical Law Company, 2011;
– Mutual Agreement Procedure: Preventing the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice? Intertax, 2009.
Languages
French
Representative matters and clients
– Tax assistance to Natura on the acquisition of Avon (closing January 2020) and The Body Shop (closing September 2017);
– Global coordination of post-acquisition integration project of one of the main leaders in the technology industry, encompassing over 70 jurisdictions;
– Tax planning and corporate implementation of the international reorganization of a unicorn digital services provider, encompassing the centralization of IP in a non-Brazilian jurisdiction, organization of a top holding company for governance purposes and optimization of the supply chain structure.
